Jesse Williams at Alabama
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Defensive line, Alabama, 2011–⁠12

Jesse Williams

Number
No. 54
Height
6′4″
Weight
320 lb
Hometown
Brisbane, Australia
Born
Nov 2, 1990, in American football

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Jesse Williams played defensive line at Alabama (2011–⁠12). The Seattle Seahawks took Williams in round 5, No. 137 overall in the 2013 NFL Draft.

At a glance

Best season
2012
Second-team All-SEC
Drafted
No. 137
Round 5, 2013 NFL Draft (Seattle Seahawks)

Honors

Team titles: National champions, 2011 and 2012; SEC champions, 2012

All-America: College Football News first team 2012

The teams

No defensive lines in our box scores: before 2016 they record only interceptions for defenders. His defense from other sources is below.

Defense before 2016

SeasonGSoloAstTklTFLSacksPBUHur
20111210142440.513
201213730372.5124
On file1744616.51.537

Our box scores carry tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from 2016 only, so these come from other sources: cfbstats.com (Open Data Commons Attribution License), its game lines summed (G: the games he has a line in). A dash: the source has no number for it.

On the roster

SeasonTeamNo.PosHtWt
2011Alabama54DL
2012Alabama54DL6′4″320

As each season’s roster listed the player (CollegeFootballData). Classes before the latest listing are counted back from it; “Yr 1” is the year on file where that count can’t place a season he played (a redshirt, transfer or 2020 year); height and weight as last listed.

Before the draft

DrillCombine 2013
Height6′3⅜″
Weight323 lb
Arm length32″
Hand size9⅜″
40-yard dash4.94 sW
10-yard split1.77 sW
Bench press30 reps
3-cone drill7.81 sW
20-yard shuttle4.83 sW

Unmarked: Combine and pro day results compiled by array-carpenter (nfl-draft-data); W: Pre-draft measurables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

In the NFL

His NFL seasons aren’t on this page yet: our NFL numbers are matched to college players by an ID his college record doesn’t carry. His NFL career is in his Wikipedia article.

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